Blog Tour, Review and Giveaway: Employing Patience by Saxon James

07 June of 2023 by ButtonsMom2003

Employing Patience By Saxon James

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Bi-awakening, small town, found family, boss/employee

Released: May 31, 2023

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Divorced Men’s Club, Book 4

Length: 279 pages

Cover Design: Story Styling Cover Design

Photo: @xramragde on IG

Synopsis

Art
When it comes to regrets, I have none. My life is perfect. I own a bar, work hard, party harder, and smother my niblings in all the love they deserve. I don’t need to settle down, as much as my sister might want me to.

But then Joey Manning walks into my office and leaves me all but begging to give him a job … and wanting to give him so much more.

The self-professed straight man is in my head and while I know that I need to move on from him, my body isn’t getting that message. It doesn’t help that Joey is a grade A flirt who can banter with the best of them.

I’ve never had regrets. Not until Joey Manning.

Joey
The bills keep piling up and the pressure to get my sisters through college before we’re evicted is always on the back of my mind. Whoever said life was for living, clearly forgot that living’s expensive.

My default mode is stressed AF and working myself to the bone, and there’s only one person who gives me a break from all that.

Art de Almeida.

My boss.

The one man I shouldn’t flirt with, but I can’t seem to stop. I want to get under his skin. To leave him panting for me. Which wouldn’t be such a bad thing except that he thinks I’m straight, and I’ve never bothered to correct him.

I need this job.

But some days I worry that I need Art more.

Employing Patience is a low angst, small town, employer/employee romance. It has a ridiculous found family, prince charming costumes and the king of anti-commitment falling hard.

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Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

What a great story!

I loved this book; Joey and Art were so good together! The flirting and UST (unresolved sexual tension) in this story is rampant. Joey has always identified as straight but there’s something about Art that’s flipped a switch and now, he’s not quite sure what label to use, he just knows that Art is someone he wants. Art doesn’t take Joey’s flirting seriously but the flirting is causing him to have a lot of UST because he wants Joey even though he knows he can’t have him.

All of the books in this series have been 5-star reads for me but there is something about this one that made me love it even more than the others. I think it’s because Art’s freewheeling life style and hookups come to a halt once he decides to give into Joey’s advances. But it’s also because Art is a genuinely good person (you’ll know what I mean if you read the book). He loves his niblings and family means a lot to him.

Joey has been taking care of his sisters by himself and he’s working himself into the ground by going to school and working two jobs to pay for their college. He doesn’t really know why he’s so attracted to Art but he wants to try everything with him.

While the sexy time between Art and Joey is pretty hot, this is still, at least to me, a very sweet romance. Art doesn’t immediately admit how much Joey means to him, it’s more of a gradual awakening once they start hooking up. The care he shows for Joey, and his dire financial situation, touched me deeply. I just loved everything about this book and I’m looking forward to reading the next one.